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How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.
Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.
Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.
Scorned by stage actors and mocked by the theater-going upper classes, filmmakers nevertheless developed a bold new art form — but they needed better weather.
When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.
Recent novels by Alan Hollinghurst, John Boyne, and Tim Murphy experiment with the idea of progress over time.
“Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.
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